# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lillian-copeland
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:16:08.263Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lillian-copeland"
name: "Lillian Copeland"
slug: "lillian-copeland"
description: "Lillian Copeland, née Lillian Drossin, was an American track and field Olympic champion athlete, who excelled in discus, javelin throwing, and shot put, setting multiple world records. She has been called \"the most successful female discus thrower in U.S. history\". She also held multiple titles in shot put and javelin throwing. She won a silver medal in discus at the 1928 Summer Olympics, a gold medal in discus at the 1932 Summer Olympics, and gold medals in discus, javelin, and shot put at the 1935 Maccabiah Games in Mandatory Palestine."
tagline: "Athletics competitor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lillian_Copeland_1938.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1904-11-25"
deathDate: "1964-07-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.16
  momentum:             0.6224066390041494
  historical:           19.88509866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Lillian Copeland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Коупленд, Лилиан"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump